Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black became one of the most fervent New Dealers in Congress. He backed revisionary New Deal legislation on labor, utilities, industry and finance. He supported Roosevelt's ill-fated plan to pack the Supreme Court. He was a relentless Senate investigator, successfully raking up corrupt practices in Government mail-carrying subsidies and in lobbying for utility holding companies (he favored public power); sometimes his inquisitorial tactics were criticized as being in violation of the Bill of Rights...
...props for the plea of Attorney John Cofer, who argued that the reams of unfavorable publicity about his client made a fair hearing impossible. Unmoved, the grand jury handed down a new indictment against Estes, which raised the total number of his pending charges to 16 counts of mail fraud, twelve counts of illegally transporting securities in interstate commerce, and one count of conspiracy in faking the existence of scores of fictitious anhydrous ammonia tanks. Other developments in the Estes scandal...
...Juan is no princely puppet. In Estoril, he works hard each morning at his rambling Villa Giralda. digesting reports on developments in Spain, receiving visitors, answering mail, plowing through the newspapers flown in from London...
Even during the cruises, mail and radio reports flow out to the yacht. Last week, heading slowly back to Estoril from a trip through the Mediterranean, he paused briefly off Gibraltar to confer with two leaders of his council. He also stopped at Cartagena as guest of the local naval commander...
...Chairman Sir John Brocklebank shook hands on a compromise settlement. They formed a new subsidiary, BOAC-Cunard, which will handle transatlantic flights for both. The company will be an odd new kind of corporate bird for England-70% government-owned (BOAC), 30% privately owned (Cunard). London's Daily Mail called it "the half and halfer-a curious affair." The Labor Party's aviation expert, Fred Lee, wanted to know whether, under the new arrangement, "the taxpayer is going to subsidize Cunard losses," a point that no one really knows the answer...